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<a href="spotify:artist:2GHclqNVjqGuiE5mA7BEoc">Common</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:5cM1PvItlR21WUyBnsdMcn">Robert Glasper</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:6e7BQ0gM6o8ecMXRZkXxlZ">Karriem Riggins</a> synthesize hip-hop with contemporary jazz and soul as August Greene. The musicians were familiar with one another long before they made their 2018 debut as a trio. Drummer and beatmaker <a href="spotify:artist:6e7BQ0gM6o8ecMXRZkXxlZ">Riggins</a> factored heavily in <a href="spotify:artist:2GHclqNVjqGuiE5mA7BEoc">Common</a>'s 1997-2007 output, and in 2016 produced the rapper's Black America Again, an album featuring <a href="spotify:artist:5cM1PvItlR21WUyBnsdMcn">Glasper</a>'s keyboards and co-production on multiple cuts. <a href="spotify:artist:5cM1PvItlR21WUyBnsdMcn">Glasper</a> had previously enlisted <a href="spotify:artist:2GHclqNVjqGuiE5mA7BEoc">Common</a> for his Black Radio 2. The trio wrote and recorded "Letter to the Free" for 13th, Ava DuVernay's Emmy-winning documentary examining the connection between slavery and mass incarceration, and won an Emmy themselves in the category of Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics. Joined by bassist/composer Burniss Travis and vocalist/composer <a href="spotify:artist:6Of92bKNSsFuoNkF4nQ6Za">Samora Pinderhughes</a>, the trio subsequently recorded a self-titled, reflective, resolutely pro-Black album. Preceded by a <a href="spotify:artist:05oH07COxkXKIMt6mIPRee">Brandy</a>-fronted update of "Optimistic," <a href="spotify:artist:0a0l3QVhfMwQNAO4wPAmP9">Sounds of Blackness</a>' 1991 Top Five R&B hit, the record arrived in March 2018. ~ Andy Kellman, Rovi
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